205 blog results for "supercomputer"

With Power7, IBM has served notice on the computing world that Intel isn't the only high-performance microprocessor manufacturer in town.

Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers

Big Blue's powerful new processor for servers integrates eight processing cores in one chip package, with each core capable of executing four tasks.

Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers

When it comes to social networking, Google has made one misstep after another. Now it's formed a 'Social Web Team' to try to straighten things out, once and for all.

Posted in News - Digital Media by Caroline McCarthy

For the 17th year in a row, Big Blue scoops up the most patents of any corporation in 2009. Its U.S. patent total for the year was 4,914. Over time it's earned 30,000.

Posted in News - Cutting Edge by Lance Whitney

Researchers at Japan's Chiba University have unveiled an MAV modeled on a hummingbird. Designed for rescue, it flaps its wings 30 times per second.

Posted in Crave by Tim Hornyak

Researchers at UC San Diego say Americans have a voracious, and growing, appetite for information. And yes, you still watch a lot of TV.

Posted in The Digital Home by Don Reisinger

Linux is not simply a great way to lower costs for enterprises: Linux Foundation exec Jim Zemlin says it is the critical component for transforming the technology industry.

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay

The Blue Waters project will tap IBM's upcoming Power7 processor for an ultrafast machine at the University of Illinois.

Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers

Intel has delayed the release of its Larrabee graphics processor, saying it will initially appear as a software development platform only.

Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers

The new Top500 list of the world's largest supercomputers suggests that "commodity clusters" for high-performance computing aren't so commodity after all.

Posted in The Pervasive Data Center by Gordon Haff